lfg

I know you like them pika

my bad

I like streams though, as a concept

(hell I watch efap so really I am the stream expert here)

I really don't like how they feel like people begging for money though

even when it's subtle

Okay but

the person you're watching is shit

if they beg for money

I usually unfollow if they do that

or click off the stream

basically, twitch has a subset of streamers who are top tier funnymen

I watch Trihex a lot, if I had to pick one I actually watch currently

jerma, I'd place the main vinesauce people, etc

and even he rubs me the wrong way sometimes

then a teir of midteir people who have their moments, then a massive bloat of trash, then ethots

youtube has the same problem

I think Twitch( the company who runs Twitch.tv) has a lot of problems

sure

I think YouTube has problems too

it is a lot more about money

OH

another big thing money wise

if you have three streams or four you're streaming too, and you're getting money from all of them

that's a pain to keep track of

how

All of them having their own systems?

I assume facebook has its own donation feature

I trhink you guys

underestimate how hard it is

to keep track of three chats

unless you just ignore an entire subset of viewers

So let me frame it like this

inwhich case, why are you restreaming

because in theory it can give you a bigger reach

fuck it, ignore facebook

Or,

twitch can give you front page

just youtube and twitch

which gives you +10-20k viewers

and they give it to people with like 500 viewers all the time

yeah facebook has a donation thing similar to superchats

hey kurt

also

youtube live has horrible discoverability

https://i.imgur.com/IUvIb5Q.png

mmmm

not arguing that twitch is not better as a streaming platform

https://i.imgur.com/TyhFpCg.png

For a large streamer, I feel like engaging chat is a token effort (not counting paid shit) For a small/medium channel, I think the approach is to designate a chat as "main chat" or to combine them via some 3rd party plugin

large streamers can have good chat

see jerma or joel chats

define large

chat for the viewer, sure

No

you or I can enjoy chat

jerma and joel interact with their chat a lot

and read messages and talk with people in the chat

when it's moving a mile a minute, it's a token efffort

sure but that's like ninja

"gee I better engage with chat"

"press 1 if you agree chat"

god

Jerma and NL get a pass from all of this critique

that's fine

there's no way to view

the top live games

Oh

one of the biggest streamers on twitch

while I don't really like him

sub/money wise he makes some of the most, admiralbahroo

his chat is pretty slow

and he reads it a ton

There's plenty of examples

I think youtube streaming is better for the kind of streams jim does as opposed to gaming

Sure

I don't think there's that big of a difference

also jesus fuck